1972 UEFA Cup Final - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1972 UEFA Cup Final was the final of the first ever UEFA Cup

UEFA Cup

The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

football tournament. It was a two-legged contest played on 3 May and 17 May 1972 between two English clubs, Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...

and Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....

.

Tottenham Hotspur won the tie 3–2 on aggregate. A 2–1 victory away from home in the first leg proved decisive for them, with Martin Chivers scoring a remarkable late winner, firing in an unstoppable shot from 25 yards. They then held Wolves to a 1–1 draw in the second leg to win the competition.

First leg


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS:
	1	Phil Parkes
	2	Bernard Shaw Bernard Shaw (footballer) Bernard Shaw is a former English footballer who played as a full back. He played more than 100 Football League games for each of the Sheffield clubs and for Wolverhampton Wanderers, in a career of more than 400 senior games....
	3	Gerry Taylor Gerry Taylor Gerald William "Gerry" Taylor is an English former footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he spent the majority of his playing career, and Swindon Town, and in the United Soccer Association league for the Los Angeles Wolves.-Career:Taylor was...
	4	Danny Hegan Danny Hegan Daniel "Danny" Hegan is a Scottish-born former professional footballer, who represented Northern Ireland at international level....
	5	Frank Munro Frank Munro Francis Michael "Frank" Munro was a Scottish international footballer who played as a centre back.Munro played for Dundee United and Aberdeen in his native Scotland before moving to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1968...
	6	John McAlle
	7	Jim McCalliog Jim McCalliog James "Jim" McCalliog is a Scottish former footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester United and Southampton.... (c)
	8	Kenny Hibbitt Kenny Hibbitt Kenny Hibbitt is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Bradford Park Avenue, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City and Bristol Rovers, and in the North American Football League for the Seattle Sounders. He was capped once for England at under-23 level...
	9	John Richards John Richards (footballer) John Peter Richards is a former English international footballer, most associated with Wolverhampton Wanderers.-Career:...
	10	Derek Dougan Derek Dougan Alexander Derek Dougan was a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Wolverhampton Wanderers....
	11	Dave Wagstaffe
Substitutes:
	12	Derek Parkin Derek Parkin Derek Parkin is an English former football player who made a record number of appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers .-Career:...
	13	Rod Arnold Rod Arnold Roderick James "Rod" Arnold is an English former football goalkeeper who spent the majority of his career at Mansfield Town, having started his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers... (GK)
	14	Hugh Curran Hugh Curran Hugh Patrick Curran is a former Scottish international footballer, who spent the majority of his career in the English Football League.-Career:...
	15	Steve Daley Steve Daley Steve Daley is a former English footballer, who played as a midfielder. The most notorious incident in his career was his British record transfer to Manchester City in 1979, later described in a 2001 Observer article as "the biggest waste of money in football history"...
	16	Peter Eastoe Peter Eastoe Peter Robert Eastoe is an English former footballer.-Career:Eastoe signed schoolboy forms with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the late 1960s...
Manager:
Bill McGarry Bill McGarry (footballer) William Harry "Bill" McGarry was an English international football player and manager.A right-half as a player, he joined Port Vale following the end of World War II, and spent the next six years with the club. He then moved on to Huddersfield Town in 1951, where he would spend the next ten years...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: | 1

Pat Jennings

Patrick Anthony "Pat" Jennings OBE is a Northern Ireland former football player. He played 119 games for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper, a figure which at the time was a world record and is still a Northern Ireland record, in an international career which lasted for over 22 years...

2 Joe Kinnear

Joe Kinnear

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kinnear is an Irish football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Newcastle United....

Cyril Knowles

Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played full-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Knowles.- Early career :...

Alan Mullery

Alan Patrick Mullery MBE is a former English football player and manager. After enjoying a successful career with Fulham and in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a manager working with several different clubs. He is now employed as a television pundit...

Mike England

Harold Michael "Mike" England, MBE was a popular Welsh footballer and manager.-Playing career:Born Holywell, Wales, Mike England was a tall commanding centre-half, who could also play effectively as a centre-forward. He played for Blackburn Rovers, Tottenham Hotspur, Cardiff, and for the Wales...

Phil Beal

Phil Beal born January 8, 1945 at Godstone, Surrey is a former English football player.-Tottenham Hotspur career:Beal played for Surrey boys and England Youth before signing as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in 1960 and became a professional at the club in 1962.He made his debut as a...

Alan Gilzean

Alan John Gilzean is a former professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s and played for Dundee in his native country and English club Tottenham Hotspur.-Dundee:...

Steve Perryman

Stephen John "Steve" Perryman MBE is a former English international football player and current manager who is best remembered for his successes with Tottenham Hotspur during the 1970s and early 1980s...

Martin Chivers

Martin Harcourt Chivers is a retired English professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s.-Southampton:...

Martin Peters

Martin Stanford Peters, MBE is a former football player and member of the victorious England team which won the 1966 World Cup as well as playing in the 1970 FIFA World Cup....

Ralph Coates

Ralph Coates was an English footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a winger. Coates played for Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient, making 480 appearances in the Football League. Coates also earned four caps for England between 1970 and 1971.-Club...

Substitutes: 12

Ray Evans

Ray Evans (footballer)

Ray Evans is a retired English footballer who played in the position of full back in England and the United States.-Career:...

Barry Daines

Barry Daines is a former professional footballer. He played in the Football League for Tottenham Hotspur and Mansfield Town, and for Bulova and England Youth in the position of goalkeeper....

(GK) 14

Terry Naylor

Terry Naylor is a former English professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Charlton Athletic in the position of full back.-Tottenham Hotspur career:...

John Pratt

John Pratt (footballer)

John Pratt is an English living, former, professional footballer. He spent much of his career at Tottenham Hotspur F.C and played as a midfielder.- Tottenham Hotspur career :...

Jimmy Pearce

Jimmy Pearce is an English living, former professional footballer. Pearce played in the position of winger for Tottenham Hotspur F.C.-Football career:...

Manager:

Bill Nicholson

Bill Nicholson (footballer)

William Edward "Bill" Nicholson OBE was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who devoted his life to Tottenham Hotspur in North London.-Early life:...

Second leg


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR:
	1	Pat Jennings Pat Jennings Patrick Anthony "Pat" Jennings OBE is a Northern Ireland former football player. He played 119 games for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper, a figure which at the time was a world record and is still a Northern Ireland record, in an international career which lasted for over 22 years...
	2	Joe Kinnear Joe Kinnear Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kinnear is an Irish football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Newcastle United....
	3	Cyril Knowles Cyril Knowles Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played full-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Knowles.- Early career :...
	4	Alan Mullery Alan Mullery Alan Patrick Mullery MBE is a former English football player and manager. After enjoying a successful career with Fulham and in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a manager working with several different clubs. He is now employed as a television pundit... (c)
	5	Mike England Mike England Harold Michael "Mike" England, MBE was a popular Welsh footballer and manager.-Playing career:Born Holywell, Wales, Mike England was a tall commanding centre-half, who could also play effectively as a centre-forward. He played for Blackburn Rovers, Tottenham Hotspur, Cardiff, and for the Wales...
	6	Phil Beal Phil Beal Phil Beal born January 8, 1945 at Godstone, Surrey is a former English football player.-Tottenham Hotspur career:Beal played for Surrey boys and England Youth before signing as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in 1960 and became a professional at the club in 1962.He made his debut as a...
	7	Alan Gilzean Alan Gilzean Alan John Gilzean is a former professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s and played for Dundee in his native country and English club Tottenham Hotspur.-Dundee:...
	8	Steve Perryman Steve Perryman Stephen John "Steve" Perryman MBE is a former English international football player and current manager who is best remembered for his successes with Tottenham Hotspur during the 1970s and early 1980s...
	9	Martin Chivers Martin Chivers Martin Harcourt Chivers is a retired English professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s.-Southampton:...
	10	Martin Peters Martin Peters Martin Stanford Peters, MBE is a former football player and member of the victorious England team which won the 1966 World Cup as well as playing in the 1970 FIFA World Cup....
	11	Ralph Coates Ralph Coates Ralph Coates was an English footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a winger. Coates played for Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient, making 480 appearances in the Football League. Coates also earned four caps for England between 1970 and 1971.-Club...
Substitutes:
	12	Ray Evans Ray Evans (footballer) Ray Evans is a retired English footballer who played in the position of full back in England and the United States.-Career:...
	13	Barry Daines Barry Daines Barry Daines is a former professional footballer. He played in the Football League for Tottenham Hotspur and Mansfield Town, and for Bulova and England Youth in the position of goalkeeper.... (GK)
	14	Terry Naylor Terry Naylor Terry Naylor is a former English professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Charlton Athletic in the position of full back.-Tottenham Hotspur career:...
	15	John Pratt John Pratt (footballer) John Pratt is an English living, former, professional footballer. He spent much of his career at Tottenham Hotspur F.C and played as a midfielder.- Tottenham Hotspur career :...
	16	Jimmy Pearce Jimmy Pearce Jimmy Pearce is an English living, former professional footballer. Pearce played in the position of winger for Tottenham Hotspur F.C.-Football career:...
Manager:
Bill Nicholson Bill Nicholson (footballer) William Edward "Bill" Nicholson OBE was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who devoted his life to Tottenham Hotspur in North London.-Early life:...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS: | 1

Phil Parkes 2

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw (footballer)

Bernard Shaw is a former English footballer who played as a full back. He played more than 100 Football League games for each of the Sheffield clubs and for Wolverhampton Wanderers, in a career of more than 400 senior games....

Gerry Taylor

Gerald William "Gerry" Taylor is an English former footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he spent the majority of his playing career, and Swindon Town, and in the United Soccer Association league for the Los Angeles Wolves.-Career:Taylor was...

Danny Hegan

Daniel "Danny" Hegan is a Scottish-born former professional footballer, who represented Northern Ireland at international level....

Frank Munro

Francis Michael "Frank" Munro was a Scottish international footballer who played as a centre back.Munro played for Dundee United and Aberdeen in his native Scotland before moving to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1968...

John McAlle 7

Jim McCalliog

James "Jim" McCalliog is a Scottish former footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester United and Southampton....

Kenny Hibbitt

Kenny Hibbitt is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Bradford Park Avenue, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City and Bristol Rovers, and in the North American Football League for the Seattle Sounders. He was capped once for England at under-23 level...

John Richards

John Richards (footballer)

John Peter Richards is a former English international footballer, most associated with Wolverhampton Wanderers.-Career:...

Derek Dougan

Alexander Derek Dougan was a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Wolverhampton Wanderers....

Dave Wagstaffe Substitutes: 12

Derek Parkin

Derek Parkin is an English former football player who made a record number of appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers .-Career:...

Rod Arnold

Roderick James "Rod" Arnold is an English former football goalkeeper who spent the majority of his career at Mansfield Town, having started his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers...

(GK) 14

Mike Bailey

Mike Bailey (footballer)

Michael Alfred Bailey is an English former international footballer who played in the Football League for Charlton Athletic, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Hereford United, and in the North American Soccer League for the Minnesota Kicks. He represented England twice...

Hugh Curran

Hugh Patrick Curran is a former Scottish international footballer, who spent the majority of his career in the English Football League.-Career:...

Steve Daley

Steve Daley is a former English footballer, who played as a midfielder. The most notorious incident in his career was his British record transfer to Manchester City in 1979, later described in a 2001 Observer article as "the biggest waste of money in football history"...

Manager:

Bill McGarry

Bill McGarry (footballer)

William Harry "Bill" McGarry was an English international football player and manager.A right-half as a player, he joined Port Vale following the end of World War II, and spent the next six years with the club. He then moved on to Huddersfield Town in 1951, where he would spend the next ten years...

Tottenham Hotspur won 3–2 on aggregate

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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|Round 1 (1st leg)||align=right|Wolverhampton Wanderers||3–0||Académica de Coimbra
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|rowspan=2|Round 1 (2nd leg)||align=right|Académica de Coimbra||1–4||Wolverhampton Wanderers
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|colspan=3 align=center|(Wolverhampton Wanderers won 7–1 on aggregate)
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|Round 2 (1st leg)||align=right|ADO Den Haag

ADO Den Haag

Alles Door Oefening Den Haag , commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag , is a Dutch football club from the city of The Hague. The club was for a time known as FC Den Haag , with ADO representing the amateur branch of the club...

||1–3||Wolverhampton Wanderers
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|rowspan=2|Round 2 (2nd leg)||align=right|Wolverhampton Wanderers||4–0||ADO Den Haag

ADO Den Haag

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|colspan=3 align=center|(Wolverhampton Wanderers won 7–1 on aggregate)
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|Round 3 (1st leg)||align=right|Carl Zeiss Jena

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German association football club based in Jena, Thuringia.-History:The club was founded in May 1903 by workers at the Carl Zeiss AG optics factory as the company-sponsored Fussball-Club der Firma Carl Zeiss. The club underwent name changes in 1911 to Fussball Club Carl Zeiss...

||0–1||Wolverhampton Wanderers
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|rowspan=2|Round 3 (2nd leg)||align=right|Wolverhampton Wanderers||3–0||Carl Zeiss Jena

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

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|colspan=3 align=center|(Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4–0 on aggregate)
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|Quarter final (1st leg)||align=right|Juventus

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

||1–1||Wolverhampton Wanderers
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|rowspan=2|Quarter final (2nd leg)||align=right|Wolverhampton Wanderers||2–1||Juventus

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

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|colspan=3 align=center|(Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3–2 on aggregate)
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|Semi-final (1st leg)||align=right|Ferencváros||2–2||Wolverhampton Wanderers
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|rowspan=2|Semi-final (2nd leg)||align=right|Wolverhampton Wanderers||2–1||Ferencváros
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|colspan=3 align=center|(Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4–3 on aggregate)
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Tottenham Hotspur

Keflavik ÍF

Keflavík ÍF is an Icelandic sports club, from the town of Reykjanesbær. The club has several divisions for different sports: football, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, badminton, shooting and taekwondo...

||1–6||Tottenham Hotspur
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|rowspan=2|Round 1 (2nd leg)||align=right|Tottenham Hotspur||9–0||Keflavík ÍF

Keflavik ÍF

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|colspan=3 align=center|(Tottenham Hotspur won 15–1 on aggregate)
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|Round 2 (1st leg)||align=right|Nantes||0–0||Tottenham Hotspur
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|rowspan=2|Round 2 (2nd leg)||align=right|Tottenham Hotspur||1–0||Nantes
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|colspan=3 align=center|(Tottenham Hotspur won 1–0 on aggregate)
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|Round 3 (1st leg)||align=right|Tottenham Hotspur||3–0||Rapid Bucharest
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|rowspan=2|Round 3 (2nd leg)||align=right|Rapid Bucharest||0–2||Tottenham Hotspur
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|colspan=3 align=center|(Tottenham Hotspur won 5–0 on aggregate)
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|Quarter final (1st leg)||align=right|UTA Arad||0–2||Tottenham Hotspur
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|rowspan=2|Quarter Final (2nd leg)||align=right|Tottenham Hotspur||1–1||UTA Arad
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|colspan=3 align=center|(Tottenham Hotspur won 3–1 on aggregate)
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|Semi-final (1st leg)||align=right|Tottenham Hotspur||2–1||Milan

A.C. Milan

Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...

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|rowspan=2|Semi-final (2nd leg)||align=right|Milan

A.C. Milan

||1–1||Tottenham Hotspur
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|colspan=3 align=center|(Tottenham Hotspur won 3–2 on aggregate)
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First leg

Second leg

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Tottenham Hotspur

See also